Yeah, I was thinking about child theming or hacking (probably just a custom template really) in a pseudo Pastebin feature/instruction for users. Forums I mod already, I end up just directing people to use Pastebin and then share the URL, seems like the easiest way sometimes.

This new forum is going to deal heavily and primarily on users working with code so I want to make it painfully simple.

It’s hard enough to get people to understand how to wrap their code with code tags so it doesn’t execute, that’s a hurtle enough. But, then when it doesn’t work that’s a few more replies to get it worked out.

I’ve actually never seen any forum do that very well, make it super easy for anyone (as in including beginners/non-tech-savvies) to understand how to add code. I might make a second textarea that says “Paste Your Code Here” in big beautiful letters :).

One idea might be to just make it so the code button wraps code with code and pre tags.

If I come up with a decent solution I’ll try and remember to share it.

Another option I suppose would to get in the code and change it so that the code button inserts textarea tags instead and then just style the hell out of them to look and function like they’re not textareas ;). That could sure confuse users though.